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Kate rejects Anthony's proposal after their night in the gazebo and takes a job as a governess in Kent. Anthony learns Kate has left London and assumes the worst.
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A character study of two people deeply afraid of turning into their mothers.
Bookmarked by KnA_ltd (justhat23)
07 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Hyacinth merely pulls up a chair and loiters in companionable silence. Anthony mulls the questions he always has – how much he’s failed her as an insufficient father figure, how long it’d take for her to resent him as such.
"We became acquainted in London, Miss Sharma and I. I suppose you could say I'm calling," he finishes, fidgeting with the bouquet in his hands.
"Oh," Mrs. Abbott says again.
"I believe I'm trying to marry her," he adds, an escalation.
"Oh," Mrs. Abbott repeats for the third time.

